Friday July 25, 2014

The Wounded Warrior Project organizes a handful of different physical activities for veterans returning from combat zone. The group will bring together 55 Canadian veterans and their family members in Lac-Delage this weekend. The retreat is the first of its kind in Quebec and the fifth in Canada. Dan Fontaine and Gervais Jeffrey are two of the organizers of this event andjoined us in studio.

More than 50 veterans and their families came together this weekend for a retreat at Lac Delage. Our reporter Catou MacKinnon was there, and spoke with Retired Brigadier-General Christian Barabé, former base commander at Valcartier, and now regional director of Wounded Warriors. Listen here.

Friday May 16, 2014

Forty years after the tragic incident, there will be a formal inquiry into the deaths of six cadets at the Valcartier military base. Military ombudsman Gary Walbourne confirmed the inquiry, after getting the go-ahead from the minister of national defence. Gerry Fostaty wrote a book about the tragedy, called "As You Were: the Tragedy of Valcartier." He tells Susan what this inquiry represents.